NOTAM Meetups: Autumn 2025

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Distinguished forum-dwellers!

I bring to you another season of SuperCollider Meetups facilitated by our friends at Notam! These online meetups will take place approximately once a month on Zoom at 7pm CET (Oslo Time):

SuperCollider meetup:
Meeting ID: 974 3258 0111
Link: Launch Meeting - Zoom

At these meetups, SuperCollider users (usually 2 per meetup) present a project, class library, instrument, or artistic practice featuring our favorite audio programming environment. These presentations are informal, vary in their format, and are intended to showcase the diversity and flexibility of expression our beloved SC permits.

If you’re interested in presenting a project/workflow/tool/whatever at one of the Meetups, send me a DM and I’ll find a slot for you - absolutely everyone is welcome to share! In the week before each meetup I’ll return here to present info about the forthcoming presenters, so be sure to follow this thread via the :bell: on the right!

All community events at Notam fall under the NOTAM Code of Conduct to make them as inclusive as possible. If you have accessibility related requests or questions about the meetup, please send me a message and I’ll do what I can to address them! (Regarding this, I still haven’t been able to find a secure video chat solution that doesn’t require login; these meetups have had considerable issues in the past with disruptive bots, trolls, etc. so until I find a suitable solution, the meetups require a Zoom account.)

Despite frequent requests, the meetups are unfortunately not recorded. One of Notam’s goals with these meetups is to keep them casual, inclusive, and low-pressure, and a previous host of the meetups found that recording them led to less engagement, fewer questions, etc. from participants. Also, we don’t really have the infrastructure to store/edit/publish the footage (Notam also hosts meetups for Max/MSP, spatial audio, etc.). Buuuuuttt…that doesn’t stop users/presenters from sharing their notes/slides/code on this forum or elsewhere!

The meetup dates for autumn 2025 will be:

2025-09-24T17:00:00Z (edited on September 16)
2025-10-15T17:00:00Z
2025-11-19T18:00:00Z
2025-12-17T18:00:00Z (edited on September 16)

See you there!

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Our first presenter this autumn will be @josephine - it’s gonna be great!

Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer is a software engineer and occasional composer. She holds a PhD from Harvard University in music composition, where she focused on toolkits for symbolic composition via LilyPond and Python, and on massively-multichannel electro-acoustic music. Her doctoral thesis “A Computational Model of Music Composition” details multiple nesting layers of symbolic composition frameworks, composition-through-configuration, and the practicalities of document preparation pipelines. Since leaving academia, she has spent a decade writing and maintaining software at companies like Discogs, Capital One, and Cortico. She lives in Kingston, NY, USA with her husband, and their German shepherd dog.

Supriya is a Python API for SuperCollider - an alternative language client - in active development for more than a decade. This workshop will demonstrate usage of Supriya via an interactive Jupyter notebook, detailing its “context” interface for interacting with realtime and non-realtime servers, its support for threaded and async concurrency models, its tools for natively building SynthDef graphs, and (time-permitting) diversions into API design, unit testing, and other more advanced topics.

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P.S. I still have an available presenter slot for Wednesday’s meetup - please send me PM if you have a SuperCollider project/workflow/whatever that you’d like to share with the community. It could be something you’re looking for feedback on, a work in progress, or an opportunity to present your research/a paper, for example. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch! :slight_smile:

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Aha, I made a whoopsie!! There was a little miscommunication with Notam, so there will be two changes to the schedule (I’ll edit my first post to reflect the changes):

  • the meetup planned for tomorrow will happen next week instead 2025-09-24T17:00:00Z
  • the meetup scheduled for December will not be happening; there will just be three meetups this fall :cry:

Sorry for the last-minute reschedule, and thanks for your patience - see you next week! :slight_smile: